Sydney boxing family charged with labour trafficking Filipino men

The Filipino boxers told 7.30 earlier this year they were forced to work as house maids.

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Three members of a well-known Sydney boxing family have been charged with labour trafficking and exploitation offences.

Two men and a woman, from Green Valley in Sydney's west, are accused of bringing four Filipino men to Australia on sporting visas and forcing them into unpaid work.

Earlier this year some of the boxers told the ABC's 7.30 program they were promised riches and success in and out of the ring.

But Australian Federal Police say when they arrived in Sydney they were housed in poor quality accommodation, provided with sub-standard meals, forced into unpaid domestic labour and had their movements restricted.